PHP - Search Query & Keyword Issue
Hi All,
Just a couple of things with my site search, I am having trouble getting the search results to pickup any and all keywords. For example, if keywords for a search result are listed in the keywords column of my db as 'one, two, three' a search query for 'one two' is fine but a search for 'one three' will not display the search result. Instead of treating the keywords seperately it is treating all keywords as a whole phrase. How can I make the search results pickup any keyword regardless of order. Secondly I'm having trouble getting the search results to display by keyword relevance, any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks. Code: [Select] function search() { parent::Controller(); $this->load->model('Templating'); $this->load->model('Company'); } function index() { $this->load->view('search'); } function search_redirect() { if ($_POST['keyword'] == '') $_POST['keyword'] = 'Keyword'; redirect('search/showlist/'. urlencode(underscore($_POST['location'])).'/'. urlencode(underscore($_POST['category'])).'/'. urlencode(underscore($_POST['keyword']))); } function showlist($location = 'any', $category = 'any', $keyword = 'keyword', $offset = '0') { /* get results */ $data['companies'] = $this->Company->search($keyword, $category, $location, $offset, $name); /* paginate results */ $row = $data['companies']->row(); if($keyword == 'keyword' and $category=='any' ) { $data['categoryList'] = $this->buildCategoryList($location); } elseif(isset($row->categoryId)) { $categoryId = $row->categoryId; $data['linkList'] = $this->buildRefineList($categoryId); } $this->load->library('pagination'); $config['base_url'] = site_url().'search/showlist/'.$location.'/'.$category.'/'.$keyword.'/'; $config['total_rows'] = $this->Company->total_companies; $config['per_page'] = $this->Company->per_page; $config['num_links'] = 3; $config['uri_segment'] = $this->uri->total_segments(); $this->pagination->initialize($config); $data['pagination'] = $this->pagination->create_links(); $data['logged_in'] = $this->session->userdata('logged_in'); $data['company_id'] = $this->session->userdata('company_id'); $data['search_category'] = $category; $data['search_location'] = $location; if ($this->session->userdata('admin') != ''){ $data['admin'] = $this->session->userdata('admin'); } /* initialise template settings */ $center = 'center/list_companies'; $this->load->vars($data); $this->Templating->show($center); } Similar TutorialsFriends, I want to extract the Search Keyword from the URL, a visitor came from. I am using a PHP CMS and want to show the Keyword on my Blog. So if they search "abcd" from google, i want to extract "abcd" and echo on my blog. Here is the coding i could got hold of, but its not working, not echoing anything <?php function pk_stt2_function_get_delimiter($ref) { $search_engines = array('google.com' => 'q', 'go.google.com' => 'q', 'images.google.com' => 'q', 'video.google.com' => 'q', 'news.google.com' => 'q', 'blogsearch.google.com' => 'q', 'maps.google.com' => 'q', 'local.google.com' => 'q', 'search.yahoo.com' => 'p', 'search.msn.com' => 'q', 'bing.com' => 'q', 'msxml.excite.com' => 'qkw', 'search.lycos.com' => 'query', 'alltheweb.com' => 'q', 'search.aol.com' => 'query', 'search.iwon.com' => 'searchfor', 'ask.com' => 'q', 'ask.co.uk' => 'ask', 'search.cometsystems.com' => 'qry', 'hotbot.com' => 'query', 'overture.com' => 'Keywords', 'metacrawler.com' => 'qkw', 'search.netscape.com' => 'query', 'looksmart.com' => 'key', 'dpxml.webcrawler.com' => 'qkw', 'search.earthlink.net' => 'q', 'search.viewpoint.com' => 'k', 'mamma.com' => 'query'); $delim = false; if (isset($search_engines[$ref])) { $delim = $search_engines[$ref]; } else { if (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'google')) $delim = "q"; elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.atomz.')) $delim = "sp-q"; elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.msn.')) $delim = "q"; elseif (strpos('ref:'.$ref,'search.yahoo.')) $delim = "p"; elseif (preg_match('/home\.bellsouth\.net\/s\/s\.dll/i', $ref)) $delim = "bellsouth"; } return $delim; } /** * retrieve the search terms from search engine query * */ function pk_stt2_function_get_terms($d) { $terms = null; $query_array = array(); $query_terms = null; $query = explode($d.'=', $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); $query = explode('&', $query[1]); $query = urldecode($query[0]); $query = str_replace("'", '', $query); $query = str_replace('"', '', $query); $query_array = preg_split('/[\s,\+\.]+/',$query); $query_terms = implode(' ', $query_array); $terms = htmlspecialchars(urldecode(trim($query_terms))); return $terms; } /** * get the referer * */ function pk_stt2_function_get_referer() { if (!isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) || ($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] == '')) return false; $referer_info = parse_url($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); $referer = $referer_info['host']; if(substr($referer, 0, 4) == 'www.') $referer = substr($referer, 4); return $referer; } $referer = pk_stt2_function_get_referer(); if (!$referer) return false; $delimiter = pk_stt2_function_get_delimiter($referer); if( $delimiter ){ $term = pk_stt2_function_get_terms($delimiter); } echo $term; ?> May someone help? Natasha T Hi Everyone, I'm trying to set up a system for my PHP MYSQL search that allows the user to type keywords. I've been doing this with one very long if statement, is there a better way? For example, I want to user to search for "chair" and have the thing return everything with a item number stating with 555. The length of the item number can vary between 10 and 12 numbers and that has slowed me down a bit. Cheers, Rob hi there - probably simple but cant find a straight example of this anywhere and i am very newby when it comes to programming. have a php search file that works fine with my mysql database. it use this argument for searching: Code: [Select] $result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM ppl_tracks WHERE Keywords LIKE '%$_POST[searchkeywords]%' AND Mixed !=false ORDER BY Track");obviously Keywords is the field searched but i want it to look for 'searchkeywords' in another field - 'Description' and while at it - is it possible to enter 2 or more keywords in the submit form (using $POST) that will be searched in the 2 fields and will return a list ordered by relevancy (how many of the keywords searched appear in each record) hope this makes sense to someone Hi guys, I'm not so good with PHP (hence my post here). Other forums have suggested using javascript, but if not enabled by the user, then it's not much good). I'm trying to set up a search box with submit button. For any keywords searched for, I would like the search terms sent to an external site in the format: http://www.domain.com/default.aspx?st=FT&ss=XXXXX (where XXXXX is the keyword). So far, I have: <?php $keyword = htmlspecialchars($_POST['keyword']); ?> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form method="post" id="searchform" action="http://www.domain.com/default.aspx?st=FT&ss=<?php echo 'keyword'; ?>" /> <input type="text" name="keyword" id="se" size="35" onblur="if (this.value == '') {this.value = 'search...';}" onfocus="if (this.value == 'search...') {this.value = '';}" value="search..." class="text" /> <input type="submit" id="searchsubmit" class="submit" value="Send" /> </form> </body> </html> .and although it directs to the url, the keyword(s) is not present. Any help would be appreciated. Not sure if this topic goes in here, it is related to PHP but also MySql, so if i'm on the wrong board sorry! What i'm trying to do is search for a keyword in 5 different tables and return the keyword ID from the table that its in The tables i'm trying to search are as follow location state county region continent The "location" table has all the locations i.e cities and each row has the following columns: id | continent_id | country_id | state_id | region_id | city_name The "state" table is set the the following: id | name "county" table : id | name "region" table: id | region and "continent" table id | name The way it works is the can search for any city or state or county or region or continent and ideally it should look into the five different tables and return the id of that table. So if the use searches for United States it will look for United States in all five tables, obviously it would find it in the "country" table so it should return that "id". The results are returned in "json format" Below is the code i have: Code: [Select] <? $input = $_GET['keyword']; $data = array(); /* In this query i'm attempting to search in all databases, but i'm not sure if i'm doing this right. I'm not getting any results so i know something is wrong just don't know how to write it. */ $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM locations JOIN states ON states.id = locations.state_id JOIN countries ON countries.id=locations.country_id JOIN regions ON regions.region_id = locations.region_id JOIN continents ON continents.id=locations.continent_id WHERE name LIKE '$input%' OR state LIKE '$input%' OR region LIKE '$input%' OR country LIKE '$input%' OR continent LIKE '$input%'") or die(mysql_error()); /* Here the values are added to to the $json array. The "value" should be the "id" from the table that the keyword matched. The 'name' Should be the name of the actual keyword. Again if they search for United States the "id" will come from the "countries" table and the "value" would come from the "countries" table as the name */ while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)) { $json = array(); $json['value'] = $row['id']; $json['name'] = $row['name']; $data[] = $json; } header("Content-type: application/json"); echo json_encode($data); ?> Any help would he be appreciated, i don't want people to do it for me, but rather just guide me a little bit. Hi All. I am looking to search a database of products based upon someone typing the name of the product they are looking for. I am using the below SQL request: Unfortunately this only shows what ever your typing and anything before or after (%) is there any way that it could also search unplaced string instances? For example $q = "SELECT * FROM products WHERE prod_name LIKE '%$id%' order by fee asc LIMIT 20"; If i type black ops ps3 it brings back search result until i get to the PS3 part. because entries in the db are "black ops for the PS3" because i havent conformed it says no results. I need it to show all results. is there another way? or can someone point me in the right direction? Hi everyone! So, this is probably one of the most simplest things to all you pros out there, but unfortunately I think I'm using the wrong words in Google as I can't seem to remember what they're called (Yeah I'm not that brilliant.) Anyway, a quick one for you guys. What I'm looking for is a simple script or method to send a Search Query to end with a URL. For example. Lets say I'm on http://mysite.com/index.php, and on that page is a search box. Now, lets say I search the word "Pizza" in that search box. I want the end result to be "http://myspace.com/search.php?s=pizza" I already have the script I'd like to use to read that value, I just simply don't know how to put that value there in the first. Yes, I know, noobish question, I'm sorry. XD Thanks in advance! Hello, I can't really explain it so a example will be better: my_table: col1 col2 col3 col4 1 1 23 A 2 1 25 A 3 2 21 B 4 3 24 A 5 3 28 A the query is-- SELECT col3 FROM my_table WHERE col2=SELECT(MAX(col2) FROM my_table WHERE col4='A') For some reason this is illegal, I can also not use a limit because the number of rows is not known a priori. I remember seeing some sort of redirection in some other forum but would appreciate a more explicit response. Thanks This is not legal for some reason -- is there a way Hi, i have the following problem. I use a script to enter data in a mysql database and for now i only have three variable... Quote <h2>Invoeren</h2> <form action="insert.php" method="post" class="cmxform"> <fieldset> <legend>Gegevens</legend> <table border="2"> <tr> <td>1. </td> <td><label for="merk">merk:</label></td> <td><input id="merk" name="merk" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>2. </td> <td><label for="cpu">cpu:</label></td> <td><select name="cpu" id="cpu" /> <option value="">Maakt niet uit</option> <option value="amd">amd</option> <option value="intel">intel</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td>3. </td> <td><label for="hdd">hdd:</label></td> <td><select name="hdd" id="hdd" /> <option value="">Maakt niet uit</option> <option value="160GB">160GB</option> <option value="320GB">320GB</option> <option value="500GB">500GB</option> </select></td> </tr> </table> <input type="submit" value="Verstuur" /> </fieldset> </form> Data goes in to the database correctly but now i use the following search script... Quote <h2>zoeken</h2> <form action="search.php" method="post" class="cmxform"> <fieldset> <legend>Gegevens</legend> <table border="2"> <tr> <td>1. </td> <td><label for="merk">merk:</label></td> <td><input id="merk" name="merk" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td>2. </td> <td><label for="cpu">cpu:</label></td> <td><select name="cpu" id="cpu" /> <option value="0">Maakt niet uit</option> <option value="amd">amd</option> <option value="intel">intel</option> </select></td> </tr> <tr> <td>3. </td> <td><label for="hdd">hdd:</label></td> <td><select name="hdd" id="hdd" /> <option value="0">Maakt niet uit</option> <option value="160GB">160GB</option> <option value="320GB">320GB</option> <option value="500GB">500GB</option> </select></td> </tr> </table> <input type="submit" value="Verstuur" /> </fieldset> </form> The values go correct to the search script because i checked this with an echo function. The search.php loks like this Quote <?php $con = mysql_connect("localhost","admin","t1tan1um"); if (!$con) { die('Could not connect: ' . mysql_error()); } mysql_select_db("model", $con); $qry = "SELECT * FROM eigenschappen WHERE 1=1"; if (isset($_POST['merk']) && $_POST['merk'] != 0) { $qry .= " AND merk='" . mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['merk']). "'"; } if (isset($_POST['cpu']) && $_POST['cpu'] != 0) { $qry .= " AND cpu='" . mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['cpu']). "'"; } if (isset($_POST['hdd']) && $_POST['hdd'] != 0) { $qry .= " AND hdd='" . mysql_real_escape_string($_POST['hdd']). "'"; } $result = mysql_query($qry) or die(mysql_error()); // lelijke foutmelding, zelf mooier maken of $result door een if statement halen while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) { echo $row['merk'] . " " . $row['cpu'] . " " . $row['hdd']; echo "<br />"; } ?> When i search for hdd wich is last in de search list the query only returns the records wich contain that value. When the condition has to be for example Intel cpu AND 500GB it returns everyting with 500GB but also every kind of CPU. Anyone? This is for a faux stock photo website. When I only use the $query string to search for $searchSubject, everything goes golden. Once I put everything else in there though, the search function will not work at all. Any help will be greatly appreciated. I've been staring at this for too long and it's starting to give me a headache. PS. This is my first post here. Seems like a great community! <?php $searchSubject = $_POST['searchSubject']; $searchPhotoname = $_POST['searchPhotoname']; $searchLocation = $_POST['searchLocation']; if (isset($_POST['search'])) { //Select records from the database $query = "SELECT * FROM `photos` WHERE `subject` LIKE '%" . $searchSubject . "%' OR `name` LIKE '%" . $searchPhotoname . "%' OR `location` LIKE '%" . $searchLocation . "%' "; } else { $query = "SELECT * FROM photos"; } $result = mysql_query($query); // count the number of rows in the database $num = mysql_num_rows($result); ?> If I leave it at this: $query = "SELECT * FROM `photos` WHERE `subject` LIKE '%" . $searchSubject . "%'"; Then everything works perfect. I'm trying to build a search function that will search all columns in a table. Here is what I've got: Code: [Select] if (isset($_POST['submitted'])) { $q = "SELECT * FROM children "; if(isset($_POST['query'])) { $q .= "WHERE "; $all = "SELECT * FROM children WHERE 1"; $r_all = mysqli_query($dbc, $all); while ($field = $r_all->fetch_field()) { // Get field headers for building query $f_name = "{$field->name} LIKE {$_POST['query']},:"; // Build query with search string $fn = explode(":",$f_name); // Need to convert $f_name to an array but this does not convert it to a single array but multiple arrays $q .= implode("OR", $fn); // Need to insert OR for the db query } // End while ($field = $r_all->fetch_field()) } // End if(isset($_POST['query'])) } // End if (isset($_POST['submitted'])) The explode function is what is not working for me. It gives me this (sam is the search string I entered into the form): Code: [Select] Array ( [0] => child_id LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => first_name LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => second_name LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => last_name1 LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => last_name2 LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => gender LIKE sam, [1] => ) Array ( [0] => dob LIKE sam, [1] => ) so instead of getting one array with each string being a value I get multiple arrays. Any ideas? Can someone please double check my search query to make sure it is the minimum and most efficient coding. My goal is an exact match search of field1 from my database table and list field1, field2, field3, field4 and field5 if the part number is in the database or no results if it is not. The query works as is but I have a feeling it could be done more efficiently or professionally and minimum work for my poor little server. Thanks in advance. Code: [Select] <?php //connect to the database include("./databaseconnect.php"); //get query $q=$_GET['q']; //convert query to uppercase & remove all spaces and special charactars $q=strtoupper(preg_replace("/[^A-Za-z0-9]/","",$q)); //if blank query if ($q == "") { echo "You did not enter a search term"; } else { //exact match only query $query = "SELECT * FROM ".$dbtable." WHERE field1 like \"$q\""; $result = mysql_query($query); //if query returns no results if(mysql_num_rows($result)==0) { echo "<span class=\"noresults\">There were no results for your search</span>"; //display database results } else { while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) { echo "<span class=\'results\'>SEARCH RESULTS</span><br /> <span class=\'list\'>Part Number: ".$row['field1']."<br /> Manufacturer: ".$row['field2']."<br /> Cost per unit: ".$row['field3']."<br /> Warehouse Location: ".$row['field4']."<br /> Quantity Available: ".$row['field5']."<br /> Notes: ".$row['field6']."<br /> </span>"; } } } ?> On my search result page, I wanted to search for "Nintendo DS Lite - Pink" I used following code: Ex: Code: [Select] $search_text = "Nintendo DS Lite Pink"; $kt=split(" ",$search_text);//Breaking the string to array of words // Now let us generate the sql while(list($key,$val)=each($kt)) { if($val<>" " and strlen($val) > 0) { $q .= " name like '%$val%' or "; } }// end of while //Remove the last 'OR' $q=substr($q,0,(strlen($q)-3)); Than the $q would be: Code: [Select] SELECT * FROM `products` WHERE name like '%Nintendo%' or name like '%DS%' or name like '%Lite%' or name like '%Pink%' And i am getting Mysql Output given below: 1) Activity Meter - DS. 2) Nintendo DS Red. 3) Nintendo DS Lite Pink. 4) Nintendo DS Lite Turquoise. But the third result is most accurate/relevant then first two result. Please help me out to get the most accurate row first then the relevant rows as per their relevancy with search term "$search_text" Many Thanks in Advance. hi all, in mysql, how can i extract 100 words before and 100 words after my search key? example: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla est nibh, mattis eu mattis id, pulvinar eu augue. Duis ut sem nisi. Sed id ante sed orci vestibulum lacinia ac id nibh. Donec cursus, elit eget auctor semper, ipsum eros laoreet quam, nec ullamcorper" vestibulum is my search key After a few days of searching and running across a problem what is almost like mine on these forums (cant seem to find the link now) where the person was looking to search a database using checkboxes. What I am trying to do is use a list of checkboxes (http://www.animeseason.com/anime-list/categories/) exactly like this link and search my table which has the genres as columns. I am new to PHP and don't really have a starting point. I have taken a bunch of examples and came up with this. My HTML form with a list of all my checkboxes. Code: [Select] <form method="post" ACTION = "php/do_search.php"> <ul class="cat_col"> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="1"> <a href="#Action">Action</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="2"> <a href="#Adventure">Adventure</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="3"> <a href="#Comedy">Comedy</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="4"> <a href="#Demons">Demons</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="5"> <a href="#Drama">Drama</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="6"> <a href="#Ecchi">Ecchi</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="7"> <a href="#Fantasy">Fantasy</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="8"> <a href="#Harem">Harem</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="9"> <a href="#Horror">Horror</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="10"> <a href="#Magic">Magic</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="11"> <a href="#Martial Arts">Martial Arts</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="12"> <a href="#Mecha">Mecha</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="13"> <a href="#Music">Music</a></li> </ul> <ul class="cat_col"> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="14"> <a href="#Mystery">Mystery</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="15"> <a href="#Ninja">Ninja</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="16"> <a href="#Parody">Parody</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="17"> <a href="#Psychological">Psychological</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="18"> <a href="#Reverse Harem">Reverse Harem</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="19"> <a href="#Romance">Romance</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="20"> <a href="#Samurai">Samurai</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="21"> <a href="#School Life">School Life</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="22"> <a href="#Science Fiction">Science Fiction</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="23"> <a href="#Seinen">Seinen</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="24"> <a href="#Shoujo">Shoujo</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="25"> <a href="#Shounen">Shounen</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="26"> <a href="#Slapstick">Slapstick</a></li> </ul> <ul class="cat_col"> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="27"> <a href="#Slice of Life">Slice of Life</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="28"> <a href="#Sports">Sports</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="29"> <a href="#Supernatural">Supernatural</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="30"> <a href="#Thriller">Thriller</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="31"> <a href="#Tragedy">Tragedy</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="32"> <a href="#Vampire">Vampire</a></li> </ul> <ul class="cat_col"> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="33"> <a href="#Movie">Movie</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="34"> <a href="#OVA">OVA</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="35"> <a href="#Top Rated">Top Rated</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="36"> <a href="#Currently Airing">Currently Airing</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="37"> <a href="#Ended">Ended</a></li> <li><input type="checkbox" name="cat_check[]" value="38"> <a href="#Ongoing">Ongoing</a></li> </ul> <div id="submit_btn_pos"> <input type="submit" name="search" value="Lets Make Magic" class="submit_btn"> <> </form> My PHP script that right now seems to do nothing. Code: [Select] <?php //if we got something through $_POST if (isset($_POST['cat_check'])) { $con = mysql_connect("localhost","USERNAME","PASSWORD") or die("Connection error"); mysql_select_db("DATABASENAME")or die("database doesn't exist"); // sanitize user input $cleanData = array(); foreach($_POST['cat_check'] as $_comp) { //$cleanData = mysql_real_escape_query($_comp); } // Build query $compStr = implode("'), ('", $cleanData); $sql = "SELECT anime_name WHERE $_comp='1'"; } ?> My database has a layout of "Name of show, (every genere listed above)". Thanks for any help. Hi guys, I have a php file that will go to a site and scrape the data I need. However this site is setup to use pagination so when I try to scrape all the players names I have to do separate queries to search each page. Is there a way to find out by using code how many pages there are and query all the pages at same time? I use this code Code: [Select] <?php //first page //turn error reporting on libxml_use_internal_errors(true); //get data from this page $dom = new DOMDocument; $dom->loadHTMLFile('http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/76.73.3.42:1716/top_players/?searchipp=50#search'); $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom); // Get the total player count $rows2 = $xpath->query('//div[@class="block774"]/div'); // Get the rows from the search list $rows = $xpath->query('//table[@class="table_lst table_lst_spn"]/tr'); for ($i=1; $i<$rows->length-1; $i++) { $row = $rows->item($i); // Get the columns for a row $cols = $row->getElementsByTagName('td'); // Get the player rank (1st column) echo 'Rank:'.trim($cols->item(0)->textContent).PHP_EOL; // Get the player name (2nd column) echo 'Name:'.trim($cols->item(1)->textContent).PHP_EOL; // Get the player score (3rd column, actually 4th but number 3 is hidden) echo 'Sco '.trim($cols->item(3)->textContent).PHP_EOL; echo "<br />"; } ?> <?php //secondpage //turn error reporting on libxml_use_internal_errors(true); //get data from this page $dom = new DOMDocument; $dom->loadHTMLFile('http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/76.73.3.42:1716/top_players/?searchipp=50&searchpge=2#search'); $xpath = new DOMXPath($dom); // Get the rows from the search list $rows = $xpath->query('//table[@class="table_lst table_lst_spn"]/tr'); for ($i=1; $i<$rows->length-1; $i++) { $row = $rows->item($i); // Get the columns for a row $cols = $row->getElementsByTagName('td'); // Get the player rank (1st column) echo 'Rank:'.trim($cols->item(0)->textContent).PHP_EOL; // Get the player name (2nd column) echo 'Name:'.trim($cols->item(1)->textContent).PHP_EOL; // Get the player score (3rd column) echo 'Sco '.trim($cols->item(3)->textContent).PHP_EOL; echo "<br />"; } ?> I also have to go to that website first to see how many pages there are so I can have enough queries. Hi guys and girls, I am having trouble finding out wether the query made no matches rather than just displaying the matches. So what I would want is for the search term to look at the database, and if there's not matches then say, "No match for your search term" Code: [Select] function search_applications() { global $dbc; echo '<form method="post" action="" id="search">'. "\n"; echo '<label for="search_applications">Search for an application</label>'. "\n"; echo '<input type="text" name="search_applications" />'. "\n"; echo '<input type="submit" name="submit" />'. "\n"; echo '</form>'. "\n"; if(isset($_POST['submit'])){ $search_applications = $_POST['search_applications']; if ($search_applications == "") { echo "<p>You forgot to enter a search term"; } //if (preg_match("/\b$search_applications\b/i")){ if(preg_match("/^[ a-zA-Z]+/", $search_applications)){ //for testing the variables //echo $search_applications; $sql="SELECT title, category, content FROM distributors_content WHERE title LIKE '%" . $search_applications . "%' OR category LIKE '%" . $search_applications ."%' OR content LIKE '%" . $search_applications ."%'"; $result=mysqli_query($dbc, $sql); //-create while loop and loop through result set while($row=mysqli_fetch_array($result)){ $title =$row['title']; $category=$row['category']; $content=$row['content']; //-display the result of the array echo "<ul>\n"; echo '<li> <a href="index.php?article='.$row['title'].'&&page=application" title=""> '.$title . ' ' . $category . '</a></li>'."\n"; echo "</ul>"; } }else{ echo "<p>Enter another search term</p>"; } } } Any pointers would be good Thank you Hello, I have a search engine on my website that uses the following code: Code: [Select] //SQL FOR *SEARCH.PHP $table = "videos"; $search = $_GET['q']; // explode search words into an array $arraySearch = explode(" ", $_GET['q']); // table fields to search $arrayFields = array(0 => "title", 1 => "titletext", 2 => "tags", 3 => "originaltitle", 4 => "url"); $countSearch = count($arraySearch); $a = 0; $b = 0; $sql = "SELECT * FROM ".$table." WHERE status ='1' AND ("; $countFields = count($arrayFields); while ($a < $countFields) { while ($b < $countSearch) { $sql = $sql."$arrayFields[$a] LIKE '%$arraySearch[$b]%'"; $b++; if ($b < $countSearch) { $sql = $sql." AND "; } } $b = 0; $a++; if ($a < $countFields) { $sql = $sql.") OR ("; } } $sql = $sql.") ORDER BY (videos.up-videos.down) DESC LIMIT $start, $limit"; $result = mysql_query($sql); My problem is that the SQL Query includes even videos that have STATUS='0' .. I only want the STATUS='1' to be shown.. How come? Thanks for help Say a user puts in a support request, and for every request it generates a unqiue string, and enters it into the database. Ok, now say there is a text field, when the user enters their unique string and it finds a match, it displays the data along with it. How can I accomplish this? Im kind of new to mysql, but I know basic SQL. Would be great if somebody could point me in the right direction! Thanks I'm hoping this is a simple question. When I use the code below, my twitter search query appears in BOLD within the returned results. I would like to style the search term differently. I can use CSS to style the avatar, author, and other information within the returned results etc, but I can't figure out how to style the search term ($q) within the returned twitter information. Any help would be much appreciated. <?php class twitter_class { function twitter_class() { $this->realNamePattern = '/\((.*?)\)/'; $this->searchURL = 'http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&q='; $this->intervalNames = array('second', 'minute', 'hour', 'day', 'week', 'month', 'year'); $this->intervalSeconds = array( 1, 60, 3600, 86400, 604800, 2630880, 31570560); $this->badWords = array('somebadword', 'anotherbadword'); } function getTweets($q, $limit=15) { $output = ''; // get the search result $ch= curl_init($this->searchURL . urlencode($q)); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT']); $response = curl_exec($ch); if ($response !== FALSE) { $xml = simplexml_load_string($response); $output = ''; $tweets = 0; for($i=0; $i<count($xml->entry); $i++) { $crtEntry = $xml->entry[$i]; $account = $crtEntry->author->uri; $image = $crtEntry->link[1]->attributes()->href; $tweet = $crtEntry->content; // skip tweets containing banned words $foundBadWord = false; foreach ($this->badWords as $badWord) { if(stristr($tweet, $badWord) !== FALSE) { $foundBadWord = true; break; } } $tweet = str_replace('<a href=', '<a target="_blank" href=', $tweet); // skip this tweet containing a banned word if ($foundBadWord) continue; // don't process any more tweets if at the limit if ($tweets==$limit) break; $tweets++; // name is in this format "acountname (Real Name)" preg_match($this->realNamePattern, $crtEntry->author->name, $matches); $name = $matches[1]; // get the time passed between now and the time of tweet, don't allow for negative // (future) values that may have occured if server time is wrong $time = 'just now'; $secondsPassed = time() - strtotime($crtEntry->published); if ($secondsPassed>0) { // see what interval are we in for($j = count($this->intervalSeconds)-1; ($j >= 0); $j--) { $crtIntervalName = $this->intervalNames[$j]; $crtInterval = $this->intervalSeconds[$j]; if ($secondsPassed >= $crtInterval) { $value = floor($secondsPassed / $crtInterval); if ($value > 1) $crtIntervalName .= 's'; $time = $value . ' ' . $crtIntervalName . ' ago'; break; } } } $output .= ' <div class="tweet"> <div class="avatar"> <a href="' . $account . '" target="_blank"><img src="' . $image .'"></a> </div> <div class="message"> <span class="author"><a href="' . $account . '" target="_blank">' . $name . '</a></span>: ' . $tweet . '<span class="time"> - ' . $time . '</span> </div> </div>'; } } else $output = '<div class="tweet"><span class="error">' . curl_error($ch) . '</span></div>'; curl_close($ch); return $output; } } ?> The HTML I have been using with this code is here Code: [Select] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>Twitter</title> </head> <body> <?php require('twitter.class.php'); $twitter = new twitter_class(); echo $twitter->getTweets('example search term', 10); ?> </body> </html> This is not my code. It is from a tutorial that can be accessed from here >> http://www.richnetapps.com/php-twitter-search-parser/ |